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Wireless-N USB
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WUSB300N
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  • Page 1 USER GUIDE Wireless-N USB Network Adapter WUSB300N Model:...

  • Page 2: About This Guide

    Glossary www.linksys.com/glossary Network Security www.linksys.com/security Copyright and Trademarks Linksys, Cisco and the Cisco Logo are registered trademarks or trademarks of Cisco Systems, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and certain other countries. Copyright © 2008 Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved.

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    Software in Linksys Products ........
  • Page 4 Table of Contents Wireless-N USB Network Adapter...

  • Page 5: Chapter 1: Product Overview

    Product Overview Chapter 1 Chapter 1: USB Extension Base Product Overview Thank you for choosing the Wireless-N USB Network Adapter. Setting up your network and your Wireless-N USB Network Adapter is easier than ever. How does the Adapter do this? Like all wireless products, the Adapter allows for greater range and mobility within your wireless network, especially with the Wireless-N (802.11n) standard.

  • Page 6: Chapter 2: Wireless Security Checklist

    32 characters in length. Linksys wireless products Password protect all computers on the network and • use linksys as the default wireless network name. You individually password protect sensitive files. should change the wireless network name to something Change passwords on a regular basis.

  • Page 7: Chapter 3: Configuration

    Configuration Chapter 3 Chapter 3: Ad-Hoc Mode or Infrastructure Mode The screen indicates whether the Adapter is currently working in Configuration ad-hoc or infrastructure mode. Signal Strength The Signal Strength bar indicates signal strength. Configuration is done through the Wireless Network Monitor (the Monitor).

  • Page 8: Connect

    Configuration Chapter 3 MAC Address This is the MAC address of the wireless Transmit Power This is the power output at which the network’s access point or wireless router. Adapter transmits. Signal Strength Up Time The Signal Strength bar indicates the This indicates the length of the most recent signal strength.
  • Page 9 Configuration Chapter 3 Network Type This is the network type used by your wireless network. Radio Band This is the radio band used by your wireless network. Security This is the status of the wireless security feature. MAC Address This is the MAC address of the wireless network’s access point.
  • Page 10 Configuration Chapter 3 Create a New Profile The next screen is the Available Wireless Networks screen. Profiles Profile This is the name of the profile. Wireless Network Name This is the SSID or unique name Available Wireless Networks of the wireless network. This screen provides two options for setting up the Profile Information Adapter.
  • Page 11 WEP key is automatically generated. The passphrase is case sensitive and must be 31 or fewer alphanumeric characters. It must match the passphrase of your other wireless network devices and is compatible with Linksys wireless products only. (For non-Linksys wireless products, enter the WEP key manually.)
  • Page 12 Configuration Chapter 3 Network Settings If your network has a router or other DHCP server, select Congratulations Obtain network settings automatically (DHCP). Congratulations! The profile is successfully configured. If your network does not have a DHCP server or router, select Specify network settings. Enter an IP Address, Advanced Setup Subnet Mask, Default Gateway, and DNS addresses If your network is not listed with the available networks,...
  • Page 13 16 alphanumeric characters. This passphrase must match the passphrase of your other wireless network devices and is compatible with Linksys wireless products only. (If you have any non- Linksys wireless products, enter the WEP key manually on those products.)
  • Page 14 Configuration Chapter 3 Advanced Users TX Key The default transmit key number is 1. If your network’s access point or wireless router uses transmit key number 2, 3, or 4, select the appropriate number from the TX Key drop-down box. Authentication The default is set to Auto, so it will auto-detect for Shared Key or Open System authentication.
  • Page 15 Configuration Chapter 3 Server Name Enter the name of the authentication EAP-TLS server here. Certificate Select the Certificate installed to authenticate you on your wireless network. Encryption Select the encryption type from the Encryption drop-down menu. Click Next to continue or Back to return to the previous screen.
  • Page 16 Configuration Chapter 3 Certificate Select the certificate installed to authenticate PEAP you on your wireless network. Inner Authen. The authentication method used inside the PEAP tunnel. Click the Next button to continue or the Back button to return to the previous screen. RADIUS RADIUS features use of a RADIUS server.
  • Page 17 Configuration Chapter 3 Congratulations screen appears next. Click Finish. Congratulations! Congratulations! The profile is successfully configured. Wireless-N USB Network Adapter...

  • Page 18: Appendix A: Troubleshooting

    Make sure that the Adapter is configured with the same Wireless Network Name (SSID) and wireless security settings as the other wireless computers in the Infrastructure configuration. WEB: If your questions are not addressed here, refer to the Linksys website, www.linksys.com Wireless-N USB Network Adapter...

  • Page 19: Appendix B: Specifications

    Specifications Appendix B Appendix B: Specifications Model WUSB300N Ports USB Port LEDs Power, Link/Act Detachable (Yes/No) Modulations 802.11b: CCK, QPSK, BPSK 802.11g: OFDM Wireless-N: BPSK, QPSK, 16-QAM, 64-QAM RF Pwr (EIRP) in dBm 802.11b: 14±1 dBm (Typical) 802.11g: 14±1 dBm (Typical) Wireless-N: 14±1 dBm (Typical)

  • Page 20: Appendix C: Warranty Information

    Linksys’ entire liability under this limited warranty jurisdiction. will be for Linksys, at its option, to (a) repair the product TO THE EXTENT NOT PROHIBITED BY LAW, IN NO EVENT with new or refurbished parts, (b) replace the product...
  • Page 21 This limited warranty is governed by the laws of the jurisdiction in which the Product was purchased by you. Please direct all inquiries to: Linksys, P.O. Box 18558, Irvine, CA 92623. Wireless-N USB Network Adapter...

  • Page 22: Appendix D: Regulatory Information

    Regulatory Information Appendix D Appendix D: The availability of some specific channels and/or operational frequency bands are country dependent Regulatory Information and are firmware programmed at the factory to match the intended destination. The firmware setting is not accessible by the end user. FCC Statement Safety Notices This equipment has been tested and found to comply...

  • Page 23: Industry Canada Statement

    Regulatory Information Appendix D Industry Canada Statement Wireless Disclaimer This Class B digital apparatus complies with Canadian The maximum performance for wireless is derived from ICES-003. IEEE Standard 802.11 specifications. Actual performance can vary, including lower wireless network capacity, Cet appareil numérique de la classe B est conforme à la data throughput rate, range and coverage.

  • Page 24: User Information For Consumer Products Covered By Eu Directive 2002/96/Ec On Waste Electric And Electronic Equipment (Weee)

    úřady. Správná likvidace a recyklace pomáhá předcházet Linksys products. Consumers are required to comply with potenciálním negativním dopadům na životní prostředí a lidské this notice for all electronic products bearing the following zdraví.
  • Page 25 Regulatory Information Appendix D Eesti (Estonian) - Keskkonnaalane informatsioon Français (French) - Informations environnementales Euroopa Liidus asuvatele klientidele pour les clients de l’Union européenne Euroopa Liidu direktiivi 2002/96/EÜ nõuete kohaselt on La directive européenne 2002/96/CE exige que l’équipement seadmeid, millel on tootel või pakendil käesolev sümbol sur lequel est apposé...
  • Page 26 Regulatory Information Appendix D Lietuvškai (Lithuanian) - Aplinkosaugos informacija, Nederlands (Dutch) - Milieu-informatie voor klanten skirta Europos Sąjungos vartotojams in de Europese Unie Europos direktyva 2002/96/EC numato, kad įrangos, kuri ir De Europese Richtlijn 2002/96/EC schrijft voor dat apparatuur die kurios pakuotė...
  • Page 27 ľudí. Ak máte záujem o podrobnejšie WEB: For additional information, please visit informácie o likvidácii starého zariadenia, obráťte sa, prosím, na www.linksys.com miestne orgány, organizácie zaoberajúce sa likvidáciou odpadov alebo obchod, v ktorom ste si produkt zakúpili. Wireless-N USB Network Adapter...

  • Page 28: Appendix E: Software License Agreement

    Schedules 2, 3 or 4 below as applicable. “Software” includes, and this Agreement will apply to BY DOWNLOADING OR INSTALLING THE SOFTWARE, (a) the software of Linksys or its suppliers provided in or OR USING THE PRODUCT CONTAINING THE SOFTWARE, with the applicable Linksys product, excluding technology...
  • Page 29 Schedule 2 are from the public web site at of the GPL or other open source code in this Software on a http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html CD, Linksys will mail to You a CD with such code for $9.99 plus the cost of shipping, upon request. GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Term and Termination.
  • Page 30 Software License Agreement Appendix E GNU General Public License is intended to guarantee your TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND freedom to share and change free software–to make sure MODIFICATION the software is free for all its users. This General Public This License applies to any program or other work License applies to most of the Free Software Foundation’s which contains a notice placed by the copyright...
  • Page 31 Software License Agreement Appendix E If the modified program normally reads commands Accompany it with the information you received as interactively when run, you must cause it, when to the offer to distribute corresponding source code. started running for such interactive use in the most (This alternative is allowed only for noncommercial ordinary way, to print or display an announcement distribution and only if you received the program...
  • Page 32 General Public License from time to time. Such new versions will be similar in If this Linksys product contains open source software spirit to the present version, but may differ in detail to licensed under Version 2.1 of the “GNU Lesser General Public address new problems or concerns.
  • Page 33 Software License Agreement Appendix E GNU LESSER GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE To protect each distributor, we want to make it very clear that there is no warranty for the free library. Also, if the Version 2.1, February 1999 library is modified by someone else and passed on, the recipients should know that what they have is not the Copyright (C) 1991, 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
  • Page 34 Software License Agreement Appendix E freedom and the wherewithal to run that program using a You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of the modified version of the Library. Library’s complete source code as you receive it, in any medium, provided that you conspicuously and The precise terms and conditions for copying, distribution appropriately publish on each copy an appropriate and modification follow.
  • Page 35 Software License Agreement Appendix E Thus, it is not the intent of this section to claim When a “work that uses the Library” uses material from rights or contest your rights to work written entirely a header file that is part of the Library, the object code by you;...
  • Page 36 Software License Agreement Appendix E Use a suitable shared library mechanism for linking You may not copy, modify, sublicense, link with, or with the Library. A suitable mechanism is one that distribute the Library except as expressly provided (1) uses at run time a copy of the library already under this License.
  • Page 37 If you wish to incorporate parts of the Library into other free programs whose distribution conditions are If this Linksys product contains open source software incompatible with these, write to the author to ask for licensed under the OpenSSL license: permission.
  • Page 38 Software License Agreement Appendix E OpenSSL License Original SSLeay License Copyright © 1998-2007 The OpenSSL Project. All rights Copyright © 1995-1998 Eric Young (eay@cryptsoft.com)All reserved. rights reserved. Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with This package is an SSL implementation written by Eric or without modification, are permitted provided that the Young (eay@cryptsoft.com).
  • Page 39 Software License Agreement Appendix E DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

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